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Edward Lear

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Profession
Poet
Died
Jan 29, 1888
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
England
About
British poet, author, and artist remembered for his playful limericks. He is perhaps most famous for "The Owl and the Pussycat," an 1871 nonsense poem.
Family
He proposed twice to a woman who was over forty years his junior, but she rejected both of his offers. He also had an unrequited attachment to Franklin Lushington, a longtime male friend.

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